BOOKS - Transnational Transcendence
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Transnational Transcendence
Author: Thomas J. Csordas
Year: 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 18 MB
Language: English
Year: 2009
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 18 MB
Language: English
This innovative collection examines the transnational movements effects and transformations of religion in the contemporary world offering a fresh perspective on the interrelation between globalization and religion Transnational Transcendence challenges some widely accepted ideas about this relationship in particular that globalization can be understood solely as an economic phenomenon and that its religious manifestations are secondary The book points out that religion s role remains understudied and undertheorized as an element in debates about globalization and it raises questions about how and why certain forms of religious practice and intersubjectivity succeed as they cross national and cultural boundaries Framed by Thomas J Csordas s introduction this timely volume both urges further development of a theory of religion and globalization and constitutes an important step toward that theory
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